How to handle new input files in Tableau Prep Let’s say you’ve got a situation where you get new input files for Tableau Prep every month (or, maybe in your case it’s every week or every day or every so often). These aren’t files to be added to your data source in addition to existing […]
Continue Reading... 2 Comments.One of the questions that comes up quite often is “How do I remove duplicate records in Tableau Prep?” or “How do I dedup data in Tableau Prep?” Some data preparation tools have a specific feature to do this. At first glance, the first version of Tableau Prep doesn’t seem to have this feature. BUT […]
Continue Reading... 3 Comments.You know you have a great piece of software when you can use its paradigm to come up with workarounds to features that don’t yet exist. Such is the case with Tableau Prep (formerly Project Maestro). I recently needed to unpivot some data and realized, the Tableau devs are truly miracle workers! Unpivot Data – […]
Continue Reading... 14 Comments.I recently had the privilege of presenting a preview of Tableau’s Project Maestro (now known as Tableau Prep) to the Amazon Tableau User Group. This is not the exact presentation, but is a very similar data flow to the one I demonstrated there. The flow also shows how to replicate a Level of Detail calculation […]
Continue Reading... No Comments.Often, you’ll have data that looks something like this: Every day, there are new records for projects that give the latest status and count of hours used. Often a project spans multiple days and the status can change and count of hours might go up. But if I want to get the most recent […]
Continue Reading... 3 Comments.Tableau’s new data prep tool, Maestro, is now in public beta, and I’m loving it! While the first beta doesn’t necessarily include all the features that might soon make it to a production release, what blows me away is the overall paradigm. It brings the intuitiveness and transparency that Tableau brought to visual analytics and […]
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